Loving Love

As I find myself in the middle of my life cycle here on earth, I have become a loving fool for others. I rarely miss the opportunity to love someone or to be loved by another.  The part I overlooked along this journey was to leave some of that unconditional loving for myself in the process.    

In the new series on my radio program “I.T.’S For You with Jillian Maas Backman, I have been sharing my thoughts on the 4 Fundamentals of Beauty – Revealed.   The characteristics I find beautiful in others: sophistication, appreciation, self-awareness, self presentation and love.    

This week’ topic is:

Love, the Diamond to Your Soul
The beauty of finding it, keeping it, and nourishing it for you  

Join me this Sunday, 9 am (CST) on Lake 961 fm (Chicago) or online at www.lake961.com when I talk amore with Ellen Whitehurst from Redbook and IVillage and find out how you can find your diamond love in the rough. 

I have chosen to be vulnerable in the wake of love compared to an observer on the shore watching it flow by, too afraid to jump for fear of crashes against the rocks of failure. 

With loving gratitude,
Jillian 

New Radio Show Series for November – Have You Really Gone Green?

Jillian Maas Backman, Intuitive Life Coach and award-winning radio host of the interactive radio program “I.T’.S For You”, is broadcasting a new series of radio programs – live and online – that discuss the philosophy of going green and making the right choices for our lives and the for the universe on a daily basis.

Everyone says they are making the conscientious effort to live simple, consume less and produce less waste, but are they really? You talk the talk, but do you walk the walk? The ideology behind the practice, the marketing slant and our collective response to the green effort will be topics of conversation in this eco-friendly series.

Featured guests will include Ellen Whitehurst, author and Feng Shui Expert who pens a monthly column for Redbook, Shuistrology, and a naturalist and survivalist living off the grid in America. Tune in to WLKG 961 the Lake every Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. for intuitive insights and commentary, and access the Contemplation of IT blog and corresponding e-sheets in the membership section of www.jillianmaasbackman.com to further your life’s lessons of positive growth.

Where is your Walden’s Pond?

To truly embrace the philosophy of “going green” I looked to the past to help me define the essence of what it means now, so we can fully grasp the passion of this concept. 

Who better to connect with the ideal of green living than the American author, Thoreau, who set out to describe first hand his interpretation of simple living in his book, Walden, this way: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” 

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all had the luxury of escaping to a place like Walden’s pond for several years?  Oh, wait – that pond is probably toxic by now! 

Anyway, I digress… Even though finding a way to live a more simple existence is key, I am having a glorious time living with all the cultural changes, gadgets and revolutionary inventions since the 1800’s! And I digress even further… 

I offer Thoreau’s insightful words to remind us to be intentional in our choices and cultivate a more “green” way of life. I encourage each one of you to explore and incorporate the concept of taking only what you need and replenishing where you can. 

Join me this Sunday on “I.T’S for You” with JMB on Lake 961 on-air and online as I explore the “green explosion” in the series I have entitled: “Have You Really Gone Green?”

 

Assignment:  Read Chapter 2 of Thoreau’s book entitled “Walden.”  You can read it in book form or the “Internet.”- something Thoreau probably would never have approved… and ask yourself this question…Where is your Walden Pond? 

With love and light, Jillian 

Ouch! Don’t Touch That…..

Next week starts the new series about politics on Jillian Maas Backman’s radio program, “IT’S For You.”

I do not consider myself controversial by nature; however, the topic of politics seems to lend itself to a natural flow of contradictions no matter how I present it to the world….

It all seems so surreal and fantasy-like, filled with heroic efforts of the “wannabe leaders” to rescue all of us from some foretold villain. But honestly, I am not sure who the villain is in this play! This topic affects every part of us, the American people: our hearts, our souls, our minds, our lives.

So, in the next coming weeks’ shows, I am giving each one of us a healthy forum to openly discuss our cultural, spiritual, gender, ethnic and income differences and how the candidates reflect back different parts of ourselves.

That information can then be used to help you formulate and cast a conscientious vote that echoes your own intellectual and soulful voice through these challenging but hopeful years ahead. Jillian

Every book is attached to a reader…

As a radio host of a talk show, one of my assigned weekly tasks is to book guests to join me on-air to discuss the topic at hand.  You can not believe the amount of literature that comes across my desk – books that are being published on every subject from big breasted women facing discrimination to katrina journals.  Every book is attached to a reader.  One assumes the position of teacher and one of student, the very basic stucture that every modern society was built upon centeries ago. I bring up this topic to pose this question: are we now  being encouraged to re-connect with this simple stucture of master teacher/student relationships? Ask yourself this question in your own life; to whom are you the teacher and where do you assume the student role?

 

I suppose it would only apply to your life if you were able to understand that each position holds equal value in the relationship.  The well traveled teacher shares information and the student is wise enough to seek higher value in his or her own personal world.

Assignment: Are you living your life in the duality of greatest strength of growth in your personal relationships, teacher and student?